Live stream tonight starts at 7.30pm, with a 5 minute countdown at five-to for chats. Streaming "Huntdown" - modern retro action/platform game. Hopefully see you there! 👋☺️ Channel link: www.youtube.com/@RetroSpecti...

I've just seen the full version of that TV advert for TikTok. Educational content on TikTok? That's like saying you need a Commodore 64 to help with your homework! 🤣

Happy New Year and thank you for all the support throughout 2025 - views, likes, subs etc., it's all helped with the channel growth. Here's my obligatory end-of-year video for you, with updates about the video work and a bit of personal stuff too. 🥳🎉

This is glorious, and I will confess I never realised both bands were involved with that song.

What would success in 2026 look like to you?

Join me this week, Thursday 1st Jan at 7.30pm, for a live streaming session playing the modern-retro, run-and-gun game, "Huntdown." Hopefully see you there, but if you miss it the replay will be up afterwards, complete with chapter markers for easy browsing. Game info: easytrigger.com/huntdown/

Wife got me a graphics tablet for Christmas. Yes, I'm shit at drawing (this was my first tryout with the device) but I'm loving how these things work, and it should come in handy for some of the finer detail in image editing for video work. Super-impressed with how pen-like using one is.

Happy Christmas everyone, just remember, you'll get to stage 4 soon enough

One final Christmas video treat this year, it's a look back at the 1988 TV version of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. If you're looking for some Christmas nostalgia to help wash down that massive lunch you just stuffed away, look no further! 🍽️🥳

Remember that trend in the #80s of #MovieSoundtrack videos featuring the movie cast with the artist? #Videos at the height of #MTV popularity. #Ghostbusters, Jewel of the Nile, Stand By Me, St Elmo’s Fire. An oddity that I’m not sure continued beyond the 80s. Can anyone think of any other examples?

Looking for comments to feature in an upcoming video on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the six-part 1988 TV series. 🦁🧙‍♀️🚪 Video is dropping next Thursday (Christmas Day!) at 3pm so there'll be a few days to post comments before the script deadline .. Thanks in advance. ☺️👍

Fancy a quick look back at how the UK Christmas Pop charts used to be? All that excitement over who's getting the number one top-spot in time for Christmas day. Is that even a thing anymore? Test your Christmas music knowledge too in my latest RetroSpectives video. 📻🎅

Just popped a new video up on my vlog channel (RetroSteve IRL). A trip out to see the Christmas Model Village at Frosts in Woburn Sands near Milton Keynes. You'll get to see some of their Christmas goodies, plus a look at our own Christmas tree train set display at home this year.

I miss Cadbury .. RIP🍫

My wife has agreed to let me buy the Bubble Bobble/Taito version of the Evercade Alpha bartop arcade machine for my birthday next month. Super-stoked about finally having a 'proper' cabinet in the house. Any thoughts on this machine? I love the easily interchangeable carts for extra games.

I love a good milestone! 🎉 Latest video is flying high; fifty new subscribers this evening alone! Whaaat!?? 🤯

Join me for a browse through the 1984 Dixons Christmas catalogue and put a ring around an item from each page that you'd REALLY want to find under the tree on Christmas morning in 1984. New Hi-Fi? Boombox? Portable TV for your bedroom? Come and take your pick!

McDonald’s. If you’d actually done that ad and in the last bit actually filmed a real person going into McDonald’s and eating a real burger with a tagline of “escape the fake” you’d’ve done gangbusters. Pay me for this idea.

A bumper Christmas Lego roundup, Gizmo's making his movie comeback, and some home arcade machines for your Christmas list; just a couple of the stories in this month's Retro Newsround, up now over on RetroSpectives.

Currently working on the script for next Thursday's Dixons Catalogue video and Fuzzy's just shared his personal collection of electronic games. Definitely one for the featured Comments section. 😊👍 Clamshell Donkey Kong is the biggest classic here for me.

I'm after your comments to feature in a video this year (coming 11th Dec), looking through the '84 Dixons Christmas catalogue. Any memories of special toys & tech you got for Christmas around that time, or of Dixons in general (or any electrical stores you remember for that matter) are welcome. 📺🎅

All set up and ready for tonight's live stream on youtube.com/RetroSpectives .. Going live in about an hour (7.30pm), so see you there if you're able .. 📺🕹️👍

Heads-up for this Thursday; it's my first official live stream on RetroSpectives. Pencil in 7.30pm on Nov 27th, where we'll be sampling action-platformer Neon Inferno, followed by two of the games that inspired its gameplay; Robocop & Cabal. Channel Link: www.youtube.com/RetroSpectives

Cor! This is a blast .. new magazine called DOCTYPE from @vole.wtf has just launched, with code listings you can type in for modern platforms and languages. Just a quick scroll down the web page took me straight back to old computer mags on my Speccy in the 80s. 🤗

Take a tour with us around Crash Live 2025, a retro gaming event held in Kenilworth. Mainly a ZX Spectrum event, but includes a wide range of other game consoles as well, including free-to-play arcade machines! If you have a favourite old computer or console it's probably here.

Neon Inferno (game I covered in a Retro Newsround) dropped today. It's like a cross between Cabal and Robocop but with a 90s-on-acid vibe. Currently priced at £13.40p, the free demo is an absolute blast. Available on consoles as well as Steam.

Just an opinion: I have a gutteral disdain for anything 'black Friday' because I think it's a way for corporations to shoehorn even more money out of an already brassic public. Is it just me?

Join us for a celebration of the classic 1970s TV sitcom, On the Buses, exploring the TV episodes, feature films and spinoff shows, plus character profiles, crossovers, merchandising, your Featured Comments, and some bonus Comedy clips at the end.

My wife's watching a documentary about Egyptian tombs & thanks to @cheapshow.bsky.social, every time the presenter says "sarcophagi" I'm stifling a giggle. 🤭

In the latest Retro Newsround we're taking a look at the new Intellivision console, a Back To The Future Wristwatch, and Lego's latest kit for big kids - The Goonies Pirate Ship! This, and more retro news over on my RetroSpectives YouTube channel.

Next RetroSpectives video will be covering "On The Buses" (1969-73), the TV show AND the spinoff films. If you have any memories to share and you'd like to contribute, post 'em here. Some will be selected and featured in the video due for release on 13th November 2025. #onthebuses

So there's definitely an interest in this, then! Vectrex has always been out of my reach (for a few reasons) and I'd love one of these minis, but as is often the case I can't justify the outlay. Any of you planning on picking one up, and how do you feel about it? This mini has been quite divisive.

Ah yes, chocolate .. I remember it well. RIP

My PS Vita has been out of action for ages (memory card issues) but I've now finally got around to setting it up again, and was delighted to discover Sony allowed me to re-download the de-listed TxK from @stinkyox.bsky.social / Llamasoft! 🦙🐏🫏

J. M. Barrie said it best ...

Remember all those classic soft drinks that were around for years, until they just weren't any more? Come and relive all your fondest fizzy pop memories in this new video exploring long lost brands. Plus: Your Featured Comments, and some old TV adverts thrown in at the end for good measure too.

This great little Halloween retro-style game I featured in a recent video has just released today, and it's currently discounted to £3.43p on Steam. Free demo still available to try out too, which was an absolute blast, so I'll be picking this up today. 🎃

The 7th edition of Retro Newsround has just dropped, with details covering the upcoming Danger Mouse video game, an affordable Back To The Future DeLorean lego kit and more besides, including more spooky, Halloween-friendly retro games.

Working on a vid for 30th Oct about soft drinks we remember from the past (a quiz-format video). If you'd like to make suggestions for the list or submit comments for the Featured Comments section, just reply here. Anything from 70s through to 00s; whatever you find nostalgic, it's all fair game. 😊🍾

Cassette storage? Gimme! 📼

I can't think of a clever & witty Halloween modification to my username so I've just stuck a bat on the end.

Take a trip back to 28th May 1983 as we take a look, page-by-page and in Full HD, at What's Inside this issue of Look-in magazine, featuring Danger Mouse and loads of other 1980s TV classics, plus a couple of old UK TV adverts to complete the experience. 📺

This edition of Retro Newsround is a bit 'Halloweeny'. Spooky retro games & some super Addams Family lego. More news including a classy collection of Atari & Space Invader watches that may or may not be out of your price range; go see for yourself in the latest RetroSpectives roundup of retro news.

#OnThisDay 1986 : Trap Door was first broadcast on ITV. Berk and co were featured in 40 episodes spread over 2 series. #80s

Well it's taken a few years but we have finally made it. It took quite a bit to get it over the line in the end, but Lee Bee has done a phenomenal job on the music BubbleBack, our sequel to Forward to the Past, now available for free on Itch. Enjoy! sloanysoft.itch.io/bubbleback #ZXSpectrum

I think this one definitely wins the "Most Threatening" title. 🫣😱

New video coming up on 16th Oct covering this Danger Mouse issue of Look-in magazine from May 1983 & I'm looking for your memories for the Featured Comments section of the video. YouTube community post has a full list of the magazine contents to trigger the memory: www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxp3V...

Now the spooky season is officially upon us (ie. October), how about a collection of spooky old UK TV ads to get you in the mood for October 31st? Hop on over to my RetroSpectives channel for this special assortment of nostalgic ads that'll have you quivering in your boots! 🦇

Had a brief break from the upload schedule for a week while on holiday but back in action now with the latest Retro newsround (à la John Craven) with the latest news about ("see below") and more ... Oh, and those perfumes, tho' .. 🤔??